[Coco] Poor mans 80 column in OS-9

[Andrew]

Thanks for that tip. Back when I was kid with my then-new CoCo 3 and 
SDECB, I had a particular palette command I'd run when in 80 col mode 
with my TV (can't recall it exactly; I think it was PALETTE 0,0:PALETTE 
15,63). At the time, I had a fairly decent 19" in my room that had 
composite inputs. Tweaked just right, 80 column text was fairly readable 
and usable without too much eye-strain. A couple of years later, though, 
I got the CM-8 (?) monitor - and that made things better - and worse 
(because no more composite artifact colors).

On 10/08/2017 10:17 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 00:34:26 -0400
> From: Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Poor mans 80 column in OS-9
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> Just a tip, if you are using a composite video output on a CoCo 3, if you type:
> montype m
> at the OS-9/NitrOS9 prompt, you MIGHT (depending on your particular TV/monitor) get a purely black and white/gray display with no color (if your lucky) and (again depending on your monitor) it MIGHT be able to render readable 80 column text.
>
> PS: This works fine for playing rogue in hires graphics mode, which is black and white anyway. :)

-- 
Andrew L. Ayers
Glendale, Arizona